Question reference: S5W-35884
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 10 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government by what date SEPA is expected to return to full operational capacity, following the recent cyber-attack that it experienced.
Answer
While SEPA has already restored a number of services, it is likely to take many months to fully recover its capacity to normal levels. This is a sophisticated criminal cyber-attack that has had a major impact on all of SEPA’s work.
Further significant steps to restore IT functionality for SEPA staff are expected towards the end of March and SEPA aims to make significant progress in its recovery by 30 June 2021. Nevertheless, there will be much work to do in the remainder of 2021-22 to fully recover from the cyber-attack.